Sheet Piles Piling

Sometime for short length of sheet piles of about 6 to 8 meters, they can be installed using a small hydraulic powered vibratory hammer attached to a heavy excavator.

The bucket of the excavator had been removed and in it’s place a vibratory hammer is placed. It will be powered by the hydraulic system of the excavator.

This video below shows a vibratory hammer mounted to an excavator arm. It’s installing a sheet pile walls. Most likely the wall is to stabilize the ground behind the sheet wall. Infront of the wall is an open excavation.

Now as mentioned earlier in my earlier post it is not a good practice to install sheet piles by banging the steel sheet piles using the excavator bucket. Doing this may cause damage to the sheet piles and as well to the excavator bucket. If you see a dented excavator bucket, then you are sure that the excavator may had been subjected to abuse beyond what the excavator had been designed for.

However, if the sheet piles are not made of steel but of vinyl sheeting ( easily recognizable from it’s clean white color ) than the installation can make use of the excavator bucket. Like this video below shows. Sometime when difficult ground is encountered, the area where the vinyl sheet piles are to be installed may be loosen using water jet prior to installation. Vinyl sheet piles are popular near water areas like sea wall, river banks due to it’s non corrosive nature. Here is a video on how vinyl sheet piles are installed with an excavator bucket.